KARACHI – The Directorate General Immigration and Passports (DGI&P) is the competent authority to issue passports to the Pakistani citizens subject to requirements.

The department offers three categories – normal, urgent and fast track – for the issuance of the passports. The official website of DG&IP describes the categories as following:

Normal fee passport will be issued after 21 working days.

Urgent fee passport will be issued in 05 working days.

Fast Track fee passport will be issued in 02 working days.

What’s the Update on Issuance of Passport?

Reports said applicants in Karachi are facing extra ordinary delay in issuance of passports. They claimed that issuance of normal category passport takes three month instead of 21 days while urgent category passport is being issued after more than one and half months.

However, the issuance of passport under fast track category takes 20 days.

The delay has affected Umrah pilgrim and other persons who intent to go abroad for education or employment.

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